Spring shear

By ROBIN HOECKER/Missourian

May 6, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT

Michael Banks, of New Zealand, talks about his job as a traveling alpaca shearer. Catherine Stickann, owner of the Sycamore Creek Farm in Rocheport, explains what happens on shearing day, which occurs only once a year in the spring.

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